JERRY SPARAGOWSKI FELL IN LOVE WITH THE HORSE AT THE 1971 U.S. ARABIAN HORSE NATIONALS HELD IN OKLAHOMA CITY. HOME WAS OKLAHOMA CITY TO JERRY. HE WAS BORN AND GREW UP THERE. HE WAS MARRIED TO HIS HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART JANE AND THEY HAD A DAUGHTER NAMED KIMBERLY. HE AND HIS WIFE GRADUATED COLLEGE IN OKLAHOMA AND HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A MEDICAL SUPPLY SALESMAN. HE TRAVELED IN SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA CALLING ON DOCTORS AND HOSPITALS. HE LIKED HIS JOB BECAUSE HE WAS A PEOPLE PERSON AND BECAME FRIENDS WITH HIS CLIENTS. HE WAS ALSO AN AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER AND USUALLY CARRIED HIS CAMERA WITH HIM.

NOW, THIS WAS ALL ABOUT TO CHANGE. AN ADVENTURE LIKE NO OTHER WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN FOR JERRY AND JANE. JERRY FOUND AN ARABIAN HORSE FARM LISTED IN THE U.S. NATIONALS PROGRAM THAT WAS LOCATED IN HIS SALES TERRITORY...THAT FARM WAS ANSATA ARABIAN STUD IN CHICKASHA OKLAHOMA.

HE DECIDED TO STOP BY ANSATA ON HIS NEXT TRIP. JUDITH AND DON FORBIS, THE OWNERS OF ANSATA, WERE OUT OF TOWN ...THEY LIVED IN ENGLAND. JERRY BECAME FRIENDS WITH THEIR FARM MANAGER AND WHEN JUDI WAS NEXT IN TOWN HE DROPPED BY. SHE NEEDED PHOTOGRAPHS OF HER HORSES AND HE HAD HIS CAMERA.

JERRY BECAME A SPECIALIST IN PHOTOGRAPHING THE ARABIAN HORSE. HE HAS PHOTOGRAPHED HORSES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, POLAND, MEXICO, THE NETHERLANDS, ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA. HE HAS PHOTOGRAPHED THE U.S. ARABIAN NATIONALS, CANADIAN NATIONALS, AND THE SCOTTSDALE SHOW NUMEROUS TIMES. HE HAS PHOTOGRAPHED THE APPOLOOSA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, THE MORGAN NATIONALS, THE MINIATURE HORSE NATIONALS AND NUMEROUS REGIONAL SHOWS. HE HAS HAD 8 THREE-DAY SEMINARS ON HORSE PHOTOGRAPHY, WHERE HE HAS INSTRUCTED OVER 200 PHOTOGRAPHERS.

HE NOW LIVES IN THE DALLAS AREA WITH HIS WIFE JANE. THERE DAUGHTER KIMBERLY AND TWO GRANDCHILDREN, BROOKE AND CAROLINE LIVE CLOSE BY.

JERRY STILL LIKES HIS JOB.
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